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Get frisked by the 21 Jump Street reboot, habla espanol with Will Ferrell in Casa de mi Padre, get our of your mother’s basement and embrace your destiny with Jeff, Who Lives at Home and Adrien Brody gets you educated in Detachment.

Like any other kind of artist, filmmakers often struggle to come to terms with just what in the hell it is they’re doing. A life of creating fantasies (and, some might argue, of telling lies) can be a strange and unsettling one that sometimes inspires a session of cinematic self-examination. Here are a few accounts of what happens when Hollywood gazes into its own abyss.

This weekend’s releases are all about getting old or coming home: Disney gives us yet another Pirates (mis)adventure, Woody Allen deals with mortality through lovers in Paris, Iraq War veterans find a different war at home, and a wandering musician returns home to face the music.

Yes, I am still frothing about Predators, the upcoming franchise reboot that has an octet of human murderers kidnapped and taken back to Predator-world for a little round of Most Dangerous Game, but this latest casting news has me… flummoxed. Two of the movie’s leads are set to be played by…